skittles graphing

Posted by:jj

I did a lesson for my evaluation that required the kids to do a variety of activities based on the colors of skittles that they had in their pack (those snack packs). They first had to estimate how many Skittles they thought they had in their bag. Then they had to write fractions for the different colors in the bag. Next they drew a graph based on the colors in the bag. Then we did a class graph based upon how many of each color each person had. They had to mentally add the numbers together. Then they made a graph based on the findings of the class. Finally, they compared their bag to the findings of the class. My kids loved this. Of course, they knew they would get to eat the Skittles after they were done with them.